Staggering on
Stephen Howe, 23 May 1996
The ‘New Statesman’: Portrait of a Political Weekly, 1913-31
by Adrian Smith.
Cass, 340 pp., £30, February 1996,0 7146 4645 8 Show More
by Adrian Smith.
Cass, 340 pp., £30, February 1996,
“... all too aptly named Hubert Bland, the incompetent Clennell Wilkinson, the pompous and plagiaristic Ellis Roberts. And there were writers who, like David Garnett, simply couldn’t manage the world of journalistic deadlines. Today, leftish journals face an ever-widening gulf between the concerns of ‘cultural politics’ and ... ”